The Threat of a WATCHMEN Sequel

It was only a matter of time, but there’s some Watchmen sequel talk a brewing over at DC…

Top 10 Films of 2009

2009 is almost at an end which can only mean one thing – the obligatory top ten of the year list.

WIN a Copy of WATCHMEN on DVD!

To celebrate this epic event in home video release we here at Giant Killer Squid are giving away a copy of the two-disc DVD to one lucky reader.

DVD FIX: July 14 2009

Hey there fellow squidies, welcome to this weeks selected new releases for July 14 and July 21 2009. It is yet another lackluster selection for this edition, so without further delay, lets get to it.

Watchmen DVD & Blu-Ray Details

The wait is almost over for Zach Snyder’s incredible film adaptation of Watchmen to hit DVD and Blu-Ray. The film will be released to retailers this July 21st and this one is a must-own for fans, Blu-Ray-philes and Watchmen fiends alike. As with most comic-book-super-fan-summer films, this movie will no doubt see an endless amount of releases and re-releases each with the most superficial of differences. But to us mega-fans, does it really even matter.

SH*T THAT I WANT: Vol. 2

Alright kids, it’s been a couple months and I’ve amassed a whole bunch of consumerables for the second edition of STIW. Here’s the best of the best, in quick and dirty rawdog style:

[UPDATED] Hot Toys Watchmen 1:6 Scale Silk Spectre

It’s not often I get to give the toys some love here on GKS (not that kind of toy, you pervert) so this little tease makes me giddy for some plastic (get your head out of the gutter, sicko).

A while back we showed you what I said was “the coolest toy ever made”, the Hot Toys MMS DX01 1/6 scale Dark Knight Joker. Whew, that toy was a mouthful (seriously, stop being gross). Well months after it’s release, Hot Toys is finally gearing up to release their 1/6 scale collectible figures based featuring characters from Watchmen.

From The Vault – The Week of March 30th

When I heard about them doing this DVD for Watchmen I thought wow, this could be really cool. As a big fan already for the book I thought this was a great idea, but why didn’t they just include it in the movie. As we all found out that it would just be too long, it was a shame because this would have really brought together the story in a different way I think. Maybe even give the movie more of the same feel of the comic book then it already has.

Watchmen In London

They did a cool little spectacle in London for the Watchmen premiere. Check it out.

Watch The Amazing Opening Sequence of Watchmen

Alright kids, we’ve got a real treat for you here…
If you read my review, you’ll remember me creaming over the intro sequence of the Watchmen film – a 5+ minute series of “living” photographs chronicling the lives and fates of the Minutemen, and important points in the history of the characters of the book. I [...]

Watchmen: From The Outside Looking In

I am not a fan of Watchmen, there I said it. It’s out there in the open. But it’s not what you think. It is not because I hate it or think its absolute garbage, nor is it because I am unmanly. Simply put, unlike Dr. Manhattan’s genitalia, I have not been exposed to it. [...]

REVIEW: Watchmen (Brett)

“None of you understand. I’m not locked up in here with you. You’re locked up in here with me.” – Rorschach
Lets start off with saying I LOVED the film. And yes I’ve read the graphic novel. Not once because I just became a fan recently, no I’ve read it several times in the [...]

Pre-Watchmen Thoughts, Forces of Geek! Update, Open Discussion

It’s a little over 24 hours before I’ll be in the theater anxiously waiting for the midnight screening of Watchmen to start. This is the film we’ve been waiting decades for.

Although you will find my full review of the film here at Giant Killer Squid, it’s Watchmen Week over at Forces of Geek! – a website that I contribute to on a regular basis – and I’ve written an article that sheds some light on my history with the book and my expectations and predictions for the film. Check out the article below.

8-Bit Watchmen!

Man all the Watchmen viral marketing is hitting every mark… and then they gone and made this.

A playable Minutemen 8-bit arcade game.

Click on the image to have at it.

DC Direct Watchmen Figures – Series I

Had you had asked me five years ago if we would ever see any sort of Watchmen merchandise, you would be on the receiving end of a good laugh in the face and subsequent sounds of a grown man weeping. This was because I never thought it would ever happen. Watchmen has been treated, and rightfully so, as one of those treasured properties that has managed to avoid the marketing monster machine since its creation in 1986. A few sparse art books and a novelty wristwatch were produced, but other than that, there has been only a handful of die hard geeks dressing up as Rorschach on Halloween.